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This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and greed, as well as a host of other stories such as 'The Voice of the Turtle' and 'Before the Party'. This is the first volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories. Written with an introductory preface for each volume and arranged in the order preferred by the author, Volume 1 contains thirty stories by this eminent writer.